Windows on mathematical meanings : learning cultures and computers

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Windows on mathematical meanings : learning cultures and computers

by Richard Noss & Celia Hoyles

(Mathematics education library)

Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1996

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Bibliography: p259-271. - Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book challenges some of the conventional wisdoms on the learning of mathematics. The authors use the computer as a window onto mathematical meaning-making. The pivot of their theory is the idea of webbing, which explains how someone struggling with a new mathematical idea can draw on supportive knowledge, and reconciles the individual's role in mathematical learning with the part played by epistemological, social and cultural forces.

Table of Contents

Foreword.- 1. Visions of the Mathematical.- 2. Laying the Foundations.- 3. Tools and Technologies.- 4. Ratio World.- 5. Webs and Situated Abstractions.- 6. Beyond the Individual Learner.- 7. Cultures and Change.- 8. A Window on Teachers.- 9. A Window on Schools.- 10. Re-visioning Mathematical Meanings.- References.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA28726629
  • ISBN
    • 0792340736
    • 0792340736
    • 0792340744
  • LCCN
    96017822
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Dordrecht ; London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 275 p.
  • Size
    24cm
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